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"From the Fucking Manual." Used to introduce a quote from a product's documentation in response to a question about that product posed in online forums, usenet, IRC, email, etc.

Using the term FTFM, like RTFM (Read the Fucking Manual) from which is was derived, tells a person that they should have read the manual before asking. Unlike RTFM, however, FTFM is used when the person responding actually wants to provide a useful answer.
Question: "Is it possible to pass sudo a password from stdin instead of the command prompt?"

Answer: "Yes, it is. FTFM:

Options

-S stdin, read the password from the standard input instead of the terminal."
FTFM by PunctuallyChallenged June 9, 2011
Related Words
F*** The F***ing Manual

Men don't need manuals or directions... Throw it out and figure it out yourself
Bill's wife nagged him to put that treadmill together, so he looked at the instructions. The pictures were big with not enough detail, it was written in 15 languages none of which told him exactly what to do. He yelled FTFM, threw the directions out and figured it out for himself!
FTFM by bombersfan July 14, 2009
Find The Fucking Manual. Response to a cheap person buying a piece of used hardware and expcting a smart person to tell them what the specifications are or how it works.
He could have easily found what he wanted on the manufacturer's web site. I told him to FTFM.
FTFM by JediMaster666 March 29, 2011
Acronym: "Fixed that for myself" Derived from Ftfy, or "Fixed that for you"
Used when one knows when one's previous comment was erroneous; primarily in a comment below an original comment.
"I smoked an ounce in an hour! By Myself!"
-Herp McDerp
NEXT COMMENT:
"LOL I meant a gram LOL Ftfms"
-Herp McDerp
Ftfms by FTFMS January 18, 2011
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”
Grindset by Omega-Male May 22, 2026
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well known from south park
rednecks get angrry that future folk took there jobs so they yell
They took ouare jerbs!
Them future folk took ouare jerbs!
jerb by Jimberley Kim April 7, 2005
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